It’s rare that I come across soap in a solid block now. Everything seems to be some sort of liquid or gel or foam. I’m guessing the soap companies like it because we probably use the liquid forms a lot faster. Hopefully solid soap will be around enough that people will still get this comic in the future.

ARGH I completely HATE liquid soaps, I don’t understand why they’re so popular!
However hard I scrub I cannot get the liquid soap to stop making my hands feel slimy and disgusting. How can people use those things?

Okay, I have to be a huuuuge nerd and point out that there is a big group of environmentally-minded people who hate liquid soaps because of all the plastic packaging and extra shipping weight they involve.

If companies like ‘Lush’ survive, solid soap will never die.

I will now keep my hippie-nerdiness to myself. Please continue making excellent comics 😀

Dial gold bar. I was raised on that soap. Someday when I go bald and shampoo is no longer required, it’ll be the only thing in my shower. I mean, a bar you can just rub yourself with, which is inherently manly because it’s like rubbing yourself with a rock or a piece of lumber. Why buy something in extra packaging, that’s mostly water, so you can get it wet, and must be used with a specially-bought fluffly apparatus that will require additional cleaning or replacement? It’s just inefficient.

Liquid soap is popular because manufacturers can make it for cheaper and sell it for more. Its not any better than bar soap, really, and the additives contribute to overreaction from the immune system, vis a vis allergic reactions.